Megan, I am in the same boat... after having my 00 ZX3 in the shop for
10 times for the same freakin' problem, guess what? Now they are replacing the PCM... UGH! And I just had it to them two weeks prior for the same thing and they said it was the wire that went from the PCM to the distributor... It always starts out it the engine running rough, goes into fail safe mode, check engine light pops on, error code of P257.
Honestly, this car should have been declared a lemon loooooong ago. I should have pushed them on it. I am going to now. Honestly, this car has been out of commission about 6-8 months total for the same problem since I bought it new exactly 6 years ago yesterday. It has been idle for almost two months in the past year alone, with the same problem. Here in NY I recently found out that you have to have it declared a lemon with in two years or 18K miles, I am out of that range, but I am going to see what can be done. I am a jerk for not putting my foot down sooner, and I have the feeling that Ford will be thumbing their nose at me while they pocket my money. Honestly, I am going to have to sell this lemon... Which totally sucks because the car is fun to drive, but I cannot trust it anymore.
Honestly this Ford sucks... Their engineers do not know their a** from a hole in the wall. I have had replaced for this one car:
- 4 fuel pumps
- 1 distributor
- 2 PCM cables
- 2 TP sensor
- so many diagnostic hours that I do not want to even think about it.
All these things because the 'Ford Engineer' tells them to do so... I have been to three dealers for the same problem, one I would never go back to, Miracle Ford here in NY. I told their owner I would not even step foot in their dealership even if I needed to call 911 because my car was on fire!
Good, luck, keep us posted! Kevin